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Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
America's Program - Citizen Action in the Americas No. 6
Americas Program at the Interhemispheric Center (IRC)
April 2003
Matthew Flynn
No other sector of Brazil's society has suffered as much as the rural poor from the country's insertion into the global economy. Policies responding to international financial institutions and designed to soften trade protections have spelled high interest rates, increased competition from subsidized food imports, the end of government agricultural extension services, and sluggish land reform programs. All of this has institutionalized penury, hunger, and joblessness in the Brazilian countryside. Thousands of families have been forced to abandon bankrupt farms and flee rural violence to join the ranks of the urban poor.
Available online at http://www.americaspolicy.org/citizen-action/series/06-mst.html
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